Mike's a very dextrous writer.
Have to point out some lovely photography in Millennium episode - Sean Van Hales.
And Season 4 - the heartbreaker season. We're missing Fay Ripley (she actually wanted to leave, though Mike refused to kill her off, luckily) but Hermione Norris is absolutely fucking fantastic, whether she's being slyly funny or blowing a gasket or going into alcoholic meltdown. But also Adam and Rachel's attempt to adopt is another tearjerker.
Over to the writer:
Happily CF series 4 was not taken from life! Well, not mine anyway. When I was researching the adoption storyline I interviewed agencies and people who'd been through adoption. I remember one of the case workers saying how they felt that TV usually portrayed them as uncaring bureaucrats when in truth they care deeply about the outcome of each case. As a result, when Adam and Rachel's adoption is stopped (because Rachel is miraculously pregnant - a change to the original script we had to include due to Helen Baxendale who played Rachel herself being pregnant) and Adam rants at the social worker, we later cut outside to see the social worker crying in her car. This was not a necessary scene and broke our rules about telling the stories through our main characters but I included it cos I wanted to do right by the social workers I'd met in the course of research.
The finale (Season 5) is interestingly open-ended. The moment Jen turns up again after several months' absence is another quivery moment. There's a 'fuck' in one episode, which must have been quite unusual then in prime time.
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